Example sentences of "be all [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A proper focus and clarity of purpose , abroad as at home , are all that anyone asks of the man from Arkansas .
2 However , we should n't grumble , because that is all that we get with many other plants , and at least the reason of interest and attraction is extended by colourful fruits ( hips ) in autumn .
3 We make-believe that the dried skull is all that we have from a modern animal , use a plaster cast to estimate how big its brain was from the skull alone , and then check with the real brain to see how accurate our estimate was .
4 And in the corner of his eye — an anxious blue blur was all that she amounted to — this Soviet woman he was deliberately ignoring .
5 That was all that he had in mind , as Prior Robert , bewildered and displeased by what seemed to him very grudging acceptance of a duty that should have conveyed honour upon the recipient , waved Jerome imperiously to the altar .
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